Taking a closer look at God’s revelation to king Hezekiah, some things become apparent. In verses 22b-25, God recounts the pride of the invading nation, the Assyrians. Then, in verses 26, God deflates their pride by revealing that all of their prosperity and success has actually come about because it was foreordained by His sovereign decree. The Assyrians were nothing more than His chosen instruments to bring about His divine purposes for human history; specifically, the humbling of His chosen people, the nation of Israel, as revealed in verse 27. Yet, despite this fact, the Assyrians chose to rob God of His glory by taking the credit for their success as a nation. God reveals the heart behind such pride in verse 28: “rage against [God].” In other words, as Paul in the New Testament states:

“And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to dowhat ought not to be done. They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.” – Romans 1.28-31

As a result of their rage and hatred toward God, He then pronounces judgement on the Assyrians in verse 29.

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I am a sinner, saved by grace striving to increase in the knowledge of my Savior and His precious Word each day.
The reader should know that there are a few presuppositions with which I approach this blog:
1) I believe in the biblical gospel, which basically purports that all mankind is born under the curse of sin (due to the sin of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden). Therefore, man is separated from God and can have no relationship with God because He is perfectly holy, not even able to look upon sin. Unfortunately, God is also perfectly just and must not only separate Himself from sin, but must also punish it.
In order to reconcile man to Himself, God, the Father, sent God, the Son, down to earth to live as a man and take our sins upon Himself on the cross. While on the cross, God, the Son, bore the full weight of the wrath of God, the Father, against our sins in order that we who believe in Him might be set free from the curse of our sin. God, the Son, Jesus Christ, died as a propitiation for our sin in order to appease God, the Father's, holy and just character, redeem us from sin, and reconcile those who believe in this gospel to God, the Father.
2) I am primarily writing to those who already believe in this biblical gospel. In other words, this blog is not focused on evangelizing the lost, but edifying believers.
3) I believe that the Christian Bible is the very word of God. Therefore, it is completely inerrant, infallible, sufficient, and authoritative in the life of a believer.